Programme

In line with the Russia’s Data Economy national project, one of the top priorities for the country is the digital transformation of the state, commercial, and social spheres. Ultimately, this work aims for a full transition of these spheres to being completely online, ensuring a high level of digital maturity in key economic sectors through the widespread implementation of digital platforms and the transition to using big data, AI, and machine learning. The quantitative targets for this transition are also ambitious: for example, by 2030, 99% of socially significant services should be digitalized. All this needs to be done based on large platform solutions. However, addressing these tasks starts today from a “high base”, formed within the framework of Digital Economy, as part of which businesses, industries, and the state as a whole have accumulated experience in digital transformation and a number of proven success strategies in the context of international application. Which digitalization projects of the past few years can be considered the most successful? On what technologies were they based? What is “under the hood” of domestic digitalization? How trustworthy are the existing technological platforms, and can this experience be scaled to other markets? How cyber-resilient are the products of digital transformation today, and what needs to be done to ensure their security in a dynamic and aggressive cyber environment? What is the foundation of the viability of any technology and the business or entire industry built on it? What are the strategy, focus, and international potential of new digital projects in various sectors for the next 3–5 years?

Moderator
Alevtina Penkalskaya, Financial Observer, RBC Investments; Presenter, RBC-TV

Panellists
Evgeny Abakumov, Director for Information Infrastructure, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom; Scientific Director, Scientific Center of Information Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, Sirius University
Denis Baranov, Chief Executive Officer, Positive Technologies
Andrey Belevtsev, Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Director, Head of the Technologies block, Sberbank
Anton Dumin, Head of the Department of Information Technology, Automation and Telecommunications, Gazprom Neft
Alexey Kalinin, Chairman of the Board Director, Production Company Aquarius
Darii Khalitov, Senior Vice President for Information Technology, Rostelecom

Evgeny Abakumov

Director for Information Infrastructure, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom; Scientific Director, Scientific Center of Information Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, Sirius University

Denis Baranov

Chief Executive Officer, Positive Technologies

Andrey Belevtsev

Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Director, Head of the Technologies block, Sberbank

This department is responsible for developing and implementing a long-term digital strategy, managing implementation and synergy across IT projects to take the company’s key competencies to a new level.

Previous experience:
•18 years’ experience in the IT industry;
•experience in digital transformation at communications service providers (CSPs), network service providers, telecoms companies, or in banking;
•an entrepreneur, ideally co-founder of a digital platform development company;
•experience in systems automation for network and banking market players including MTS, Rostelecom, Yota, Otkrytie Bank, Bin Bank, Bank Zenit, etc.;
•experience in managing the dissemination of IT developments and software at Russian companies in 40 countries worldwide.
Previous employers: RooX, YOTA, CBOSS, ISA RAS.

Anton Dumin

Head of the Department of Information Technology, Automation and Telecommunications, Gazprom Neft

Alexey Kalinin

Chairman of the Board Director, Production Company Aquarius

Darii Khalitov

Senior Vice President for Information Technology, Rostelecom